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Duke Star Posts Clever Tweet After Seeing Tennessee Player Commit Flagrant Foul vs. FAU

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Duke Star Posts Clever Tweet After Seeing Tennessee Player Commit Flagrant Foul vs. FAU
Duke Star Posts Clever Tweet After Seeing Tennessee Player Commit Flagrant Foul vs. FAU

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Duke is no longer in the men’s NCAA tournament but one of the Blue Devils’ top players had one of the best moments of the night during Thursday’s Sweet 16 games. 

Kyle Filipowski saw something from the Tennessee-FAU game that reminded him of a moment from Duke’s second-round loss to the Vols—Uroš Plavšić sending an opponent to the ground with a vicious hit.

After a brief review of the play the refs gave Plavšić a flagrant foul and FAU went on a run that ended with them winning the game and sending Tennessee home. 

Filipowski had a very good take on that dirty play: 

He was indeed speaking from experience: 

Was that a bit of flop? Maybe. But he still took a pretty strong elbow to the chest from Plavšić.

Either way, both players are now watching the rest of the tournament from home. 

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Andy Nesbitt is the assistant managing editor of audience engagement at Sports Illustrated. He works closely with the Breaking and Trending News team to shape SI’s daily coverage across all sports. A 20-year veteran of the sports media business, he has worked for Fox Sports, For the Win, The Boston Globe and NBC Sports, having joined SI in February 2023. Nesbitt is a golf fanatic who desperately wants to see the Super Bowl played on a Saturday night.

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